Thompson v. Odom’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Killingsworth v. Killingsworth (1969), Carpenter v. Huffman (1975)
42 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Odom v. Averett · Dollar v. McKinney · Livingston v. Livingston · Moorer v. Malone · Hall v. Waterman
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under our statute (§ 73, Title 34, Code 1940) a married woman, living with her husband, the husband being of sound mind and a resident of this state, is without power to alienate her land, or any interest therein, without the assent and concurrence of the husband, expressed in writing, and contracts for the sale of her lands made by her without the assent and concurrence of her husband in the manner required by that statute, are void. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trabits v. Snow
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.